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From: admin@net1.intermac.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: getty and mgetty
Date: 19 Aug 1996 01:13:03 GMT
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In article <4v6i2l$8v@uriah.heep.sax.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
(Joerg Wunsch) wrote:

> You can use a new tag in /etc/gettytab for this port, and override the
> `lo' capability in it.

Thanks a lot for the information. I'll figure out what you mean.

> That's surprising.  I'm all but a mgetty lover, but i haven't had too
> much trouble to setup it in the cases where i needed it.

Thanks cuz you're a seasoned pro with lots of hindsight! I have enough
problems here with stupid NT and lame-ass Appleshare to deal with Mgetty.
I think that any program with more than one configuration file should be
avoided like the plague.

Thanks anyway.

Dave